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unusual facts about Deir el-Bahri



Al-Muazzam Turanshah

Turanshah was the last in the main Ayyubid line to rule in Egypt, with the exception of the six year-old child Al Ashraf Musa, who was briefly installed as nominal Sultan by the Bahri Mamluk Aybak in a bid to present a veneer of Ayyubid legitimacy to Mamluk rule in Egypt at a time when the Syrian Ayyubids were threatening to invade.

Bahr negus Yeshaq

When the Ottoman general Özdemir Pasha, who had been made governor of the Ottoman province of Habesh, crossed over from Jeddah in 1557 and occupied Massawa, Arqiqo and finally Debarwa, capital of the Bahri negassi, Yeshaq led the local peasantry against the invaders, recapturing Debarwa and seizing the "immense treasure" the invaders piled up within.

Deir el-Bahari

In a separate room were found Twenty-first dynasty High Priests and pharaohs Pinedjem I, Pinedjem II, and Siamun.

It was here, in about 2050 BC, that Mentuhotep II, the founder of the Middle Kingdom, laid out his sloping, terrace-shaped mortuary temple.

Deir el-Muharraq

The Deir el-Muharraq (Arabic: الدير المحرق, ad-Deir al-Muḥarraq, "the burnt monastery") or Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Asyut, Egypt, is a Coptic monastery near El-Qusiya.

Djehutihotep

Lived under the reigns of Amenemhat II, Senusret II and Senusret III, Djehutihotep was one of the most powerful nomarchs of the Middle Kingdom; his tomb is the only one of the necropolis of Deir el-Bersha which wasn't damaged by the quarrymen's explosives, and is well known for the great quality of its decorations.

Édouard Naville

In 1903-06 he returned to Deir el Bahri to excavate the temple of Mentuhotep II, assisted by Henry Hall.

Egypt Exploration Society

Their discoveries include the discovery of a shrine for the god Hathor, a statue of a cow from Deir el-Bahri, the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut and the sculpted model of Nefertiti from Amarna.

El-Tarif

Intef I, Intef II and Intef III were all buried in a saff (row) tomb in El Tarif in a row close to the Deir el-Bahri which is the location of the Mentuhotep II's Mortuary Temple.

Eritrean Defence Forces

The kingdom of Medri Bahri was dissolved and the Colony of Eritrea was founded by the Italians in 1890, shortly after the opening of the Suez Canal.

Jess Ghannam

He is a board member of the Gaza Community Health Clinic, and has established medical clinics in towns and cities across the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, Khan Younis, Jabalia and Deir el-Balah.

Kazimierz Michałowski

Michałowski directed Polish excavations at many sites, including Tell Atrib (ancient Athribis) from 1957, Alexandria from 1960, Dabod 1961, Faras 1961–1964, Deir el-Bahari from 1961 and Dongola from 1964.

Khartoum League

The teams playing in it are those from the three cities of the capital Khartoum; Khartoum, Bahri, and Omdurman.

Nasser al-Bahri

During a September 2009 interview with the reporter Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star, Al Bahri said that he was no longer a member of al Qaeda, but that he supported the organization for some of its beliefs.

He and his brother-in-law Salim Ahmed Hamdan were the subjects of the award-winning documentary The Oath (2010) by the American director Laura Poitras.

Al-Bahri and Hamdan were the subjects of the award-winning documentary, The Oath (2010), by the American director Laura Poitras, which explored their time in al-Qaeda and life journeys afterward.

Nehsi

He is depicted in the "Punt Reliefs" in the temple of Deir el-Bahri where he is described as having been responsible for dispatching Hatshepsut's expedition to Punt.

Sayyedati

She was pushed out by Doyle in the closing stages to win by half a length from the favourite Bahri.

Shaigiya tribe

(Major Hussein escaped to Egypt in 1891 and came back during to the reconquest in 1898. His family still resides in Omdurman Bahri and Hajar al Asal.)His grand children went far as Germany where they go by the name Hussein.

Soumia

Soumia Bahri or just Soumia (born August 27, 1977, in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne) is a French Zouk singer.

Temples of the Beqaa Valley

Thirdly a group in the area west of a line drawn along the ridge of Mount Lebanon that includes Makam Er-Rab, Sfire, Kasr Naous, Amyioun, Bziza, Batroun, Edde, Mashnaka, Yanuh, Afka, Kalaat Fakra, Kalaa, Sarba, Antoura, Deir el-Kalaa, Shheem and the coastal plains of Beirut, Byblos, Sidon, Tripoli, Lebanon and Tyre.

Turin Papyrus Map

It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 AD and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.

Will of Naunakhte

The Will of Naunakhte (also referred to as Naunakht) is a papyrus found at the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina that dates to the 20th dynasty during the reign of Ramesses V (Černý 1945 pg. 29).


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